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Eskimo and various Indian dialects gives evidence of ancient and 

 long existing relations between the Eskimo and the more southern 

 tiibes of America aborigines. 



To return to the theory of an Asiatic origin for the Eskimo. 

 Peschel ^ says, " The identity of their language with that of the 

 NamoUo, their skill on the sea, their domestication of the dogs, their 

 use of the sledge, the Mongolian type of their faces, their capacity for 

 higher civilization, are sufficient reason for answering the question 

 whether a migration took place from Asia to America, or inversely 

 from America to Asia in favour of the former alternative." He 

 concludes that this migration took place " much later than the first 

 colonization of the New World from the Old." He further says that 

 in historical times the migi-ations have been in an easterly direction. 

 The Aleutian he thinks are connected with the Eskimo " only by a 

 number of words common to both, which may, however, have been 

 merely interchanged, in other respects their language is isolated."'^ 

 Topinard,^ gives his opinion as follows, " La dolichocephalie et 

 I'extrgme hauteur de crane (du type eskimau) diminuent en se rap- 

 prochant du detroit de Behring. Les Aleoutes et les Koloches 

 formeraient le passage entre lui et le type samoyede ou le type 

 mongol." V. Henry,* assuming the correctness of the Asiatia theory 

 of Eskimo origins, thinks, " I'Aleoute, serait probablement I'anneau 

 de ti'ansition qui allierait ensemble le samoyede et I'Eskimau, langues 

 au premier abord, si dissemblables." A few years before, M. Henry 

 had rejected the theory of the relationship of the Innuit languages 

 with those of the Ural-Altaic group as uttex-ly untenable.'' 



A great deal has been made of the so-called " Mongolian aspect " 

 of the Eskimo. Peschel says they are often mistaken for Chinese or 

 Japanese, and Aleuts, Petitot*^ observes " rien ne ressemble plus a un 

 Esquimau et a un Groenlandais qu'un Koriak, un Ostiak, un Samoi- 

 ede," and Figuier^ is of the same opinion. Dr. P. Penhallow^ compares 

 the Eskimo with the Ainos, and suggests that the latter may have 



1. Races of Man, p. 391. 



2. Loc. cit. p. 397. 



3. Anthropologic, 2e Ed. 1877. p. 488. 



4. Esquisse d une Grammaire raisonnee de la langue aleoute, Paris 1879, p. 3. 



5. Esquisse d'uiie graniniaire innok., Rev. de Ling., Nov. -Dec. 1877, p. 224. 



6. Loc. cit, p. 391. 



7. Voc. Frang. Esquim. 1876, p. xxv. 



8. Human Race, p. 243. 



